Robert H. Lustig | Cariology and Cardiology Chronic Disease and the Toxic Food Environment. 

I’m a physician board certified in integrative and metabolic medicine, a former surgical sub-specialist, with a long term interest in preventative health and longevity. I agree with everything he said here. This is excellent information that would benefit all physicians and other health care providers as well as parents and public health officials. Unfortunately there are a myriad of vested financial interests that will attempt to deflect attention away from fructose, processed foods, and alcohol as the culprits for the poor health that unfortunately afflicts so many. The good news is people can take charge of their health starting today by selecting healthy foods, exercising moderately, and getting good nightly sleep.

I can't get enough of Dr. Lustig's presentations.The information I have gained may well have saved my life.

If your Liver doesn't work well then the extra stress goes straight to your Pancreas. That profoundly hit me. It is always an honor to hear Dr. Lustig speak

I learned this about 3 years ago and refused to continue statins and the "healthy diet" according to the medical field. Had a huge argument with my cardiologist about being on a ketogenic diet. I've never felt better. HDL higher than ever (48) and TG under 70. No sugar, no fruit, no seed oils. No processed foods.

My nomination for the Secretary of Health is Dr. Robert Lustig. I wonder if any members of Congress watched this video.

Give Nobel prize to Dr Lustig - the amount of health care cost savings besides improved lives - phenomenal.

Following Dr Lustig will save millions of lives...Exceptional physician whose heart is for the people...Love you Sir...

And yet, most doctors still blame cholesterol and saturated fat. Try talking to them about this stuff and they look at you like you’re the problem. How dare you question their authority!

Lustig is changing our world, one institution at a time. What a hero. My guy, thank you from the bottom of my low carb heart #ketolife

I’ve been eating a lot of eggs, meat and fat. All my lipids went down. When I told my Dr I was eating a ton of eggs meat and fats and all my lipids went down 20-30 points. And I lost a ton of weight. He sat there silent.

gem of a lecture. easy enough for anyone with interest to follow. great job my dude.

Dr. Lustig's book "Metabolical" is a must read for all US physicians!

I am a dentist and I find this enlightening

Exceptional presentation, highly recommended. Lustig brings it all together here.

Love and admire Robert H. Lustig. He changed me when I seen him do Sugar; The Bitter Truth,,an amazing man, i enjoy listening to him always 🥑

Wow! 😮 Dr. Lustig, you are my hero. I love how you bring everything together and it’s all backed by clinical studies. My doctor wants to put me on statins even though my HDL and triglyceride numbers are good. Thank you for educating us so we are better able to make needed changes and advocate for ourselves as well. God bless you.

What a great man and human… you are my hero sir! You are fighting with big food and big pharma and doing great job for just our lives. Congratulations Sir.

I am not a medical pro, but I appreciated (enjoied) this lecture a lot: it’s so clear and evident. Thank you dr Lustig

Glad to hear about how corn fed beef is bad for us. I would go for grass fed. Regenerative agriculture is the best. #regenerativefarming

Such needed conversations for those interested in true health and managing it! Taking ownership of one's health is the key! 😎♥️

Thanks to COVID 19 that I had to stay home taking various vitamins and watch these excellent presentations. Otherwise I could never understand his message.

well, the vid should be shown at schools starting at 6th grade. 100's of millions of kids need to be made aware what the food industry is doing to them.

Thanks to Dr. Robert Lustig for presenting all this info on the erosive, corrosive and inflammatory effects of sugars, i.e. carbohydrates of all kinds! Loved the historical document from the 1930's about the recommendation for a low-carb, high fat diet for diabetics -- why, oh why, does the Medical Industrial Complex keep treating the escalating incidence of and symptoms of diabetes, rather than educating people about how to REVERSE diabetes???!!! Answer: profits. Yep, keep 'em sick, and you've got a cash cow for their entire life. That's the ugly truth about this so-called healthcare system we have. So much more to say, but it makes me so angry -- esp. after watching what has gone on in the last 3+ years, globally -- that I can't continue. Again, thank you to Dr. Lustig for this fact-based presentation. If only the powers-that-be would stop interfering with the dissemination of this type of information... particularly in our medical schools. 😡

I love you, Dr. Lustig

Wow. There I was grading when this came up! I had to replay. Wonderful! I dumped processed foods a long time ago. How supportive this is to my views. Most people ignore my proselytizing, alas.

Dr. Robert Lustig saved my life and my family's future. Ever grateful to this learned man.

I moved to Texas seven years ago to be close to the tadpoles as I go into my dotage. I hate Texas. The politics, the property taxes, the shit roads, etc. BUT, there are some diamonds here. Texas Tech and the University of Texas. Not talking sports, but one of the greatest research universities in the world. Dr. Lustig mentions UT at Houston, one of my daughters graduated from the nursing school there. In the same huge complex, the M. D. Anderson Cancer center is a leader in cancer treatments. A friend of mine recently has gone through months long bone marrow transplant. Aforementioned daughter had a very rare condition having to do with a leaking dura mater. Fortunately she lived in Houston and had access to the world's leading experts in dealing with this condition. Without her treatments, she would be an inactive, bed ridden woman instead of active and an RN at Colorado Springs Children's hospital. And the people here are the friendliest of any place I've lived in my adult life. I am proud of these Texas institutions.

I am not sure that fresh whole foods are more expensive than processed foods. At least in Australia. Here fruit and vegetables are mostly $4-$10 per kilo. A packet type food, as far as you can generalize, would be around $4-$8 per 300g. Admittedly meat is more expensive at $10-$30 per kilo fresh. What you would actually be paying for the low meat content where present in processed meals would probably work out to be astronomical! In summary, I have gone fresh without huge damage to my budget, even though I have eliminated bulky filling foods like rice and pasta.

Thank you, dear Dr. Lustig! I'm not a doctor or any other medical worker, but I listened your lecture in this video and many others. They are very informative, educative and truthful, because it works. I practice No fructose, No ethanol, Low carbs, and I feel better in my 65 than I was in my 40es. Although, I still eat fatty steaks. Yes, my LDL is high, triglycerides are very low, and the ratio is just perfect. Thanks again for your hard work, huge respect to you, and professionals just like you! So, there is a hope, that Americans can be much healthier as an individuals and as a nation.❤❤❤

A brilliant man. I enjoy listening to him. I hope more people will listen to what he has to say.

Subsidies for Agricultural Processing of unhealthy food is paid for with the Public's Taxes.This enables Processed food to out-compete more responsibly produced foods.This Political Policy is anathma to the Public Welfare , and should be of concern to anyone who considers themselves part of the electorate.

I love hearing Dr. Lustig speak.

Listing is a wonderful lecturer. One criticism that I have is that many of us eating a meat based diet with zero fiber, or very low fiber, are doing just fine.

This wasn't about Cariology... this was a brilliant view of what happened when sugar and processed food entered our lives and how it made us diseased like we have never been before. Even though he is speaking to an auditorium of doctors, he explains it so that a lot of regular joes can "get it."

I’ve been riveted watching this presentation especially since my doctor just suggested I start on a statin despite my excellent TG:HDL panel. But, according to her I’m at risk for CVD since LDL is 158

The truth prevails. Thank you! 🙏 ❤

And he's talking to cardiologists who probably rolled their eyeballs when he mentioned LDL vs Triglycerides.

Get food made at home on your stove top. Not out of a bag or box. Please please. Love you lustig. You started me on this journey to health. I was a terrible eater and didn't know why i felt sick and why i needed to change. You said so and i did it and it worked. TY The concept of once in a while needs to be there for me and it is. But letting it go out of control is not ok for anyone.

I watch any and all of dr Lustig’s videos he is changing my health and saving my life. Trigs of 392 all of my life After one year Mt trigs are down to 146. I’m still working on ldl but at least I understand it …..almost :)

Wow!!😮 Excellent!!! You knocked this one out of the park, no doubt!! 👍🎩👍

excellent presentation, i believe 100% of it, Thank you

You are the John Lennon of nutritional science. Don't care who you piss off. As Lennon said, "Just give me some truth." Angry about the system (corporate as well as regulatory), and have the guts to slap us in the face so we will wake up. My kind of guy. I'm a researcher, and when I see the real deal, I know it. Thank you for not folding in the face of powers much greater, and taking a sword to the misinformation and f-ing liars. Now, that it what I call a hero and a justice warrior. It's got to be hard. If you can hang in there, and I suspect you can, you can change the world. Very much inspired. I honor and thank you. May you live a long and fulfilling life. I know your work has completely transformed the way I eat. Real food only. Based on your previous videos, I eliminated sugar entirely. Was mid-range prediabetic, now way under that range and tummy gone. And on a lighter note, I can eat butter? Well, that means more vegetables for me. I've been dumping olive oil on them, grub basically. Now with butter, which I ate as a skinny child, feeding myself with only a can or frozen box of whatever vegetable I could find, I did that, and liked it. Olive oil for calories only, but that's been my go to for years. Yuck. Grass fed cattle butter? NOW we are talking. Haha, I had a can of sweet peas with butter for breakfast. Beef I have to have often, or I get anemic in a heartbeat, but use the cheap lean cuts. Maybe I am fortunate that I learned to quit craving sugar. Had cut out most complex carbs too, so this is enlightening to hear that I can eat more of them.

Great presentation! What I like about Dr Robert Lustig's presentations is that you always hear him say something you've not heard him say elsewhere. Thanks for posting.

Dr. Oscar Rosales,and Dr.Lustig two of the best in Houston!!!

Excellent! Passed along to family and friends.

Thank you for your lecture Dr Lustig. I am currently doing my own research into these issues following my Dr advising me that I need to take a statin because of high total cholesterol. My TG/HDL ratio is 1.0 and all my other markers are normal. I have now watched all your You Tube videos. Information is empowering. I'd have loved to seen the faces of the people in your lecture. I hope they didn't go out an have a muffin and coke during the session break!

Thank you for the great work you do educating us all

Great video!! Since 2019 Im trying to get a true understanding of food as health. It makes sense. This was a tough video to watch bc you almost need biology and chemistry background. Yet I found it informative. I’ll have to rewatch it. Yet we have others like Dr Berry (and many more like Him) who claim we don’t need fiber, that even natural fruit sugars and vegetables are just as harmful and promote inflammation. I like Dr Sten Eckberg’s approach on food as health. Variety of whole foods is best. Carnivore diet is all the rave now, as keto was not long ago. But, God created clean foods for a reason. It backs science. Its all the toxins man has added or decided what food is without looking how God made it.

Thankyou for the presentation, you have put in science what i are feeling and experiencing in my person on my journey to better health.

I LOVE this man!

outstanding. thanks

Very interesting and informative presentation. Want to watch it again and to spend more time on each graph and figure from publications that Dr. Lustig has mentioned in this presentation.

Great lecture. Thank you.

Mr. Lustig lays it all out here to understand ...

Thank you for this information.

Robert H. Lustig is a great guy... but he is basically fighting the industry. The industry knows what we should eat...

7:53 8:04 "...low sugar, high *_fiber_* ..." No. It says, "...low sugar, high *_fat_* ....." You got it right the first time.

Unreported funding by the sugar research foundation? You don’t say. How do you find this information? Good research.

us should treat sugar as fentanyl

Thank you

Really enjoy Dr Lustig 🙌

Doctor , what do you think about non -ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy vs the diet ? Does it have a role in reversal?

I can't wait to read your book

Great practical stuff

~32:30 " ... it is that triglyceride to HDL ratio that seems to matter, and that's a actually a surrogate measure for a metabolic phenomenon: insulin resistance ... with a corelation coefficient of 0.76 ... "

Doctor your brilliant

Very well said

Deserves another listening👍

Watching from Guyana.

Love it 🔥

Wait, this is the first I'm hearing that the small dense ldl particle isn't atherogenic (according to the Harvard School of Public Health) @ 31:25. It sounds like Dr Lustig might disagree, but is that really up for debate? Isn't it the small dense particle that doesn't get taken up by the liver and stays in the blood circulatin longer, getting oxidized and causing problems?

Excellent presentation. I would also add that it’s not necessarily sugar per say that’s the culprit. It’s sugar metabolism or rather lack there of. It’s the unmetabolised sugar that can’t get into the cells that’s the problem. Two key essential nutrients (minerals) chromium and vanadium are needed so that the hormone insulin can unlock the sugar receptor and let the sugar into the cell.

"My" dairy and meatfarrmer feeds high octane hay and just a little grain when The cows goes into the milking robot.

Great talk as always (when I first saw "cariology" on the intro slide I thought this was an embarrassing misspelling of cardiology).

I was always curious about what went down in the liver. Now I am petrified and more depressed.. Thannnkss jk Great video, Thank you so, so much for posting this.

Lustig dialogue on Covid and the late uptick in cardiovascular related abnormalities and associated deaths !

Great video! I am keen on getting your advice wrt my recent lipids test results: TC 273 HDL 59 TG 58 LDL 208 TG/HDL Ratio 1.0 I take medication for hypertension and am suspected of having Familial Hypercholesterolemia (have corneal arcus, so it seems). Quit Statins 3 months ago. I do intermittent fasting 18:6 every day for 2 months. Have lost about 10kg. BMI of 20-21. Performed an Ankle Brachial Index DIY with a score of 1.5. I will really appreciate your advice . Your lifesaving videos have served as my health guide these past months.

Dr. L 🙌🏽 ❤

We need to look at behavior and mental health in children. How does this shift in metabolic dysregulation affect school?

New term for NAFLD is Metabolic dysfunction steatotic liver disease

40:23 and on, very important points and distinctions.

Very interesting. How important is Lp(a) and ApoB? 💚🤙

People are dying of heart disease less simply due to people quitting smoking.

My concern with dental health research is gum recession and/or gingivitis itself. including more concrete information about the "possible" effect on heart health.

*Legal Action!* Make the food fraudsters pay. Excellent!

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So what to do if HDL/triglycerides ratio is bad?

I love maple syrup so much....damn it. I'm almost too afraid to ask. I run 5k/day, 30 minutes of gym, otherwise somewhat sedentary. Of course now that I'm cutting sugar back (except for a spoonful of maple syrup, O Canada etc etc) What are your thoughts on caffeine Dr. Lustig?

How will look America if Dr. Lustig was director on NIH instead Dr. Fauci.

I found this article on seltzer of all things. Weight Gain For many of us, whether or not drinking seltzer can lead to weight gain is an important question as we’ve been told that seltzer is a healthy way to consume fewer calories overall, leading to weight loss. While the research is still ongoing, a recent study in rats found that carbonated beverages (sweetened and unsweetened) led to significantly greater weight gain than rats given a sweetened but de-gassed carbonated beverage. The researchers then tested this in 20 healthy male humans and found the same results. These findings are surprising, as it was initially thought the sugar and calories in soda lead to weight gain, not carbonation. But this study showed that even if you keep the sugar in when you take the bubbles out, the weight gain is less. So why did this happen? The researchers found that carbonated beverages led to significantly greater increases in ghrelin (a hormone responsible for making us feel hungry) than de-gassed beverages. However, this was just one study and more research into the long-term relationship between seltzer and weight

I really wish he had defined what he means when he uses the term "sugar". Is he meaning the white stuff in the sugar jar? honey? sugars in sweet potatoes, green beans, greens? Concentrated refined sugars or fruits and vegetables? Not defining terms leaves one in confusion.

I wonder if proteolytic enzymes rid the liver of scarring.

I'm 63, BMI 24.5 , cyclist and hoping to get a lot fitter over the next decade or so pitting myself against the Atlantic ocean... TC 139, HDL 50, LDL 73, TG 71. BP 120/80, HBa1C 5.5. Should I drop my inexpensive vegan whole plant Mediterranean-style diet that I have enjoyed for 40 years for grass-fed beef ? I had always imagined myself going more Okinawa-style in later life ...

dr lustig is a gift. trig:hdl has been my poor-man's pattern sizing tool for many years. my doctors are using gross ldl reference level only. and i have to pay them. i tried to get a prescription for a glucose monitor. they refuse to prescribe it until AFTER i get diabetes. why does it need a prescription when it's my glucose to know?

I get regularly check up so I am not worried I've been eating everything for years am nearly 70 although am diabetic am allowed to 2 pk quavers a week I need a treat

Get the flouride out of out of our water and sugar out of our mouths. My daughter never got a carey until she was forty five but she didn't get flouridated water either.

Eeverybody with me so far. No! a resounding no. Too many technical words I dont know or how to spell. But it sounds good so far. Is my local doctor up to date with this data? Very good speaker.

What do you eat if if everything bad for you

If u have genetic..high ldl issue statins seem to be needed. Been on keto for 1.5 yrs and lipids went down 20% every 6 months.. weight dropped by 10 lbs. now removing all red meat but staying on keto or Mediterranean diet to to get off as I am now on borderline high risk criteria cause high risk.

Should one give up eating fruit or some kinds of fruit? Should one give up salads and eat cooked veg only?